Quotes About Sacrifice

She let him go once. Every day demands that she release him over and over again.

Love is a luxury. It's something that people are allowed to indulge in when they're not simply trying to survive and keep other people alive.

Our love is our burden.

A good wife is someone who thinks she has done everything right: raising the kids, being there for the husband, being home, trying to do it all.

I told her that I could not marry her, because…because I was in love with you." For a long time Madeline sat in her chair, immobile, listening only to the sound of her blood pounding in her ears. She stared blankly at Adam. "You can't be." He bowed his head. "You can't possibly love me. I'm nothing." "You're not nothing. You're everything.

Here's the thing about motherhood. It exhausts you and thrills you. It kicks you in the butt, and the very next second makes you feel like a superstar. Most of all, it teaches you to be selfless.

No matter how tightly I held him, however, I couldn't seem to get close enough. I loved him with such passion. There are no words to describe it. I would have died for him that night, if it would have taken away his pain.

Are you forgetting that I let my father cut me off? I said goodbye to my entire family for you. That's how crazy in love with you I was.

that. "I know the feeling. I think it's part of being a parent. Sometimes you just want to go hide under a rock somewhere, but you have to stay strong for your kids, to keep their world upright.

I think part of the problem is that I've always been inclined to put his needs before my own. I have this inherent compulsion to do everything in my power to make sure that he's happy.

We certainly did. We just wanted to survive. That's all. Your house could be bombed, and you could lose everything you owned in a matter of seconds, but it wouldn't matter if you still had the people you loved. If they survived, that was all the riches you could ever ask for. So, don't let the size of that ring sway you. Think about what kind of a man he is. Is he decent and honorable? Would he die for you or help another person before he helped himself?

Unfortunately something always has to go by the wayside.

I'm all she's got and if I don't make it this time . . ." You'll pass through the light. A ribbon of guilt twists my stomach. I'm all Kim and Chip have too. But the difference is, they'll be better off without me.

If you begin to give away parts of yourself, eventually you'll give it all. And once you've lost yourself, haven't you lost everything?

Lady Madelyne had sealed her own fate. She'd warmed his feet.

Practice at hunger makes the fast easier.

The lack of a free weekend keeps more blockbusters bestsellers from being written than you can imagine.

Nothing comes without a price, so don't whine when the bill arrives.

A Japanese can live on a teaspoonful of rice a day. We were the best breed of worker they had ever hired in their lives.

Babies demand your entire self, but it is a funny kind of self. It is a mixture of the "all" a factory worker gives to the conveyor belt and the "all" a lover offers to the one he adores. It involves, on both counts, a fair degree of self-abnegation. This is why people who mind children suffer from despair; it happens all of a sudden—they realise, all of a sudden, that they still exist.

That's what it's all about–knowing what you have to lose, but risking the loss anyway.

Even as we desire new life and more life, we must realize that a part of us— of each individual person, black or white— has to die into that new life.

And History will smile to think that this is the species for which Socrates and Jesus Christ died.

You know not, yet, the sort of love that strikes like a lightning bolt; that clutches hold of you by the heart, as irrevocably as death; that becomes the lodestar by which you steer the rest of your life. I would not wish such a love on anyone, man or woman, for it can make your life a paradise, or it can destroy you utterly.